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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17
FREDERICKSBURG.

Tho battle of Fredericksburg took place
dec. 10 1t was disastrous day TO the
Union arms. Burnside's plan OF attack was
flor Summer and Franklin to storm the forti-
fled Confederate heights above the town, all
along the line, and carry them by assault.
In the midst of dense fog, Dec. IL, Sum-
ner's grand division had crossed at the.upper
pontoon on the right, Franklin's below on the
2left The First, Second, Sixth and Ninth corps
were tho troops that had crossed. They were
commanded respectively by Gems. Reynolds,
Couch, w. II. Smith and Wilcox. They
formed their lines parallel to the river, except
Gen Meades division of the First corps,
which was at right angles to it. Gen. Double
days division was stationed as q reserve i'll
tho rear of Meade on the left.
The fogs Of Dec 10 continued to the 18th.
Added TO this, the weather, for Virginia, was
b;sArlv cold 1t was tho first experience of
some of Lees soldiers with a northern winter
and the night of the 18th some Confederate
sentinels froze at their posts.
Fredericksburg is another of the battles of
ihe civil war about which there has been
q espch dispute. 1t is said on the one hand
2tliS Burnsides order to Franklin as to the
Beginning of the fight was ambiguous in mean
Manned for not pushing the fight solidly on
Mo Federal left, at Halnilton's crossing.
After crossing the Rappahannock, Franklin
was directed by Burnsides order to keep his
whole command in position for rapid move
nent down the old Richmond road. Burn
side was by no means SO well informed Of the
Nrength of the force opposed to bin as Lee
INNS to have been about Burnsides army.
'franklin's corps began the fight early in
the morning, Dec. Is, with Gen. George g.
Meade in tho advance. There were two lines
Of Confederate Notifications along the heights,
FIR &Alin's attack was ON the Confederate
right, against Stonewall jackson. A fearful
storm of shot and shell met the Federals. A.
I. Hills advance Confederate line was driven
Mex, however, but Gregg, Early and Stuart
etosed in and repelled charge after charge.
Mora than 40 per cent of Meade's command
fell Reynolds came to his aid with re-en'
orcements, and Reynolds lost 1900. But
fhey finally drove the Cenfederates back
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

like blades of grass before reaper Night
only closed the slaughter. When it settled
down over that smoking, bleeding field there
were 1900 fewer effective soldiers of the
Army of The Potomac than there had been in
the morning.
Burnside wished to renew the contest next
day, Dec. IA, but his officers dissuaded him
from it. That night he crossed back to Fall
mouth, withdrew his whole army to Stafford
heights and left Lee to possess Fredericlls-
burg, what there was left of it. He himself
passed the night in a state of mental agony
hard to describe.
The battle OF Fredericksburg was fought
on Saturday. Burnside had 100, 600 effective
men in his army, Lee IS, coo in his fortified
heights. The Union loss was about $4,000;
the Confederate $500. On the Confederate
side Gems Gregg and 7. R. r. Cobb were
killed; on the Union side, Gems. George
Bayard and C. Feger jackson. Burnside
had resolved to cross the Rappahannock
again below Fredericksburg The move
ment was 30 commence Dec so, when sud-
denly Burnside received an order from Presi-
dent Lincoln to make no general movement
without first informing him of it, While
Burnside had been preparing to cross the
| Rappahannock, several of his generals had
been to the president and represented to him
that they thought Burnside's plans were
ruinous folly.
So nothing was done till Jan. 20, 1868.
Burnside had decided to make another at
tempt to cross the Rappahannock. six miles
above Fredericksburg. but it seemed that
not only his own officers, but the fates. We're
against him. His army had no sooner started
up the river than great storm set in. Snow,
rain and sleet came down all together and
rendered tho march impossible The soldiers
said it seemed as if the bottom had fallen out
Of the roads.
Tine troops could not 60 forward A few
indeed reached the river after long delay,
only to find the Confederates ready for them
at the crossing.
The expedition was a failure. Officers
Of the Army of the Potomac spoke of it de-
risiyely as the Mud March. Burnside was
next relieved from command of the army Eat
his own request" the government records
say. Whatever his military capacity or the
lack Of it, he was one Of the most unselhsh
and patriotic Of all the Union generals.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17
IS army had twent,


lei. Burnside had prepared pontoon bridges
Dec IL was the day he fixed for the crossing
|Th2t morning, before daylight, the bridges
|wdSe brought down to the shore and
the engineers set to work to construct them.
IS tile dawn broke, bcoml booml went an
uiishotted cannon from Marye's heights, tell
ling Lee and his men that the time was come.
Bai'ksdale's sharpshooters within the town of
Fredericksburg began firing on tho bridge
builders. They prevented the completion of
!ke bridges. The batteries from Stafford
Heights were then trained upon Fretiercks-
burg. They battered it down, yet the sharp
shooters were not dislodged. Then Union
volunteers to cross the river in open boats
and drive out the sharpshooters were called
for This was done with the loss Of 800 men,
and the Federals took possession of the river
(fyont Of Fredericksburg, Dec. II. That even
ing and the next day Summers and Frank
Ilin's.grand divisions crossed, leaving part of
HoAer's center grand division Oh the Fal.
.Mouth siGe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

Lonestrcet says. In moment the gnps were
closed again, however, and the devoted men
marched on.
Half the narrow plain at the foot Of
slarye's hill was crossed, when, lol ii seemed
as IL oil the thunders and lghtnings Of heaven
burst upon them. A living sheet OF fire
blinded their eyes, an Internal din roared In
their ears and when it passed hundreds of
brave men lay upon that plain, never moro TO
see or hear aught with earthly eyes or ears
again.
The deadly lghtnings shot forth from
Longstreet's hidden guns behind the stone
wall in the sunken road
Against that fire no living thing could
stand. French's soldiers fell back. Ham
cocks came on CALAMITY. Another sheet of
living fire, another Internal roar, and hun
dreds of other bodies were piled upon those
that already lay upon the CHASTITY plain. One
brigade after another came on, each in its
turn to be mown down and hurled back
Those who saw the assault of Marye's hill at
the sunlren road one and all speak Of it as a
succession of waves Of living human beings
in turn dashed and broken against the ste ne
wall.
After Frenchs and Hancocts divisions were
repulsed, Towards threw itself against the
wall. 1t, too, was driven back, broken and
bleeding. That finished the available strength
of the Second corps, Gen. COUGHS. Then
Sturgis' division Of the Ninth corps was
ordered forward Tho charge at Baiaklava
is famed in history. More than twenty
charges like Balaklava would not have COM
passed the destruction wrought before the
stone we'll al fredericksburg, Dec 10, 1862
Six distinct waves Of troops assaulted the
works and fell back. At one moment Lee,
watching the fight from Lees hill, expressed
apprehension to Longstreet that the position
might be taken, SO never ending seemed to
be the lines of blue that advanced against it.
Longstreet replied
General, If you put every man now on the
other side OF the Potomac on that field to APP
proach me over the same line, and give me
plenty of ammunition, will kill them all be.
fore they reach my linen
Samuel Davis Sturgis was born in Penn
sylvania in 1922 Graduated at West Point,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

was to assault and
carry the frown-
ing crest Of Ma
rye's hill. To begin
the fight he sent
G. e II. w. II.
Ere Ii C h IS COM
nand, immediate
ly followed by that
Of Hancock, "two
divisions that had
never turned their
backs to the EN-
elny." as he said
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

and the forces OF tho two Joined In the center
and ercircled Fredericksburg.
I 20 understand the fight fully, glance at the
accompanying map. Five miles below Fred
erGiuburg the little Massaponax river
flowed into the Rappahannock from the wcst.
A ridge OF hills sloped down to the Kappa
hammock above the Massaponax, running
from the northwest. Five miles above the
\ <asaponax the ridge retreats from theriveI
AZ enough 10 leave a plain, and upon thii
plain the town Of fredericksburg was built.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

Hlow the town the ridge again approaches
clcso to the river. Behind the first range OF
hslls another rose, as II both were built by
nature for the planting Of batteries forthe
protection Of Fredericksburg. Burnside
cpuld not have selected worse point for at
Itcll or Ice better one for defense. The
Iikoad from Richmond to the Potomac
|aEef passed through the town.
Lee had $1,000 men after jackson Joined
him. These began to throw up eartlworks
in crescent six miles long, from the Massa-
Ronax to above Fredericksburg. They
I&pfSed with win and soon had built those
/ Anidable Notifications against which Burn
| sidA's haplebs hosts were to dash themselves
like waves against a granite rock.
Nearest the Rappahannock, on the north Of
the Confederate left, was TayloIs hin, about
which r.. II. Andersons men lay. Next came
Marye's hill, which gained fatal renown in
the battle. Here were others of Longstrcet's
men, Hill, Ransom and McJaws. Across
Marye's hill ran stone wall, terrach,g the
hill Next came Telegraph hill the highest
| of oil Here Lee stood and directed opera
tioss in person. For this reason the crest Is
| n6$ called Lees hill, and as such is pointed
QUITO the visitor. Next after McLaws came
Hoods division on the right. Still farther &c
the right lay Jackson's men, A. r. Hill
Nearly and Taliaferro ID. III. Hills command
was upon the extreme right as reserve.
NO, on the morning of Dec. 10, 1862, lay the
lNfederate army awaiting the Federal adj
yafce. Stafford heights, occupied by Burn
sides artillery on the opposite side of the
RappahannocE, were higher than the hills Oh
the Confederate side, but these, again. wer'
SO far distant as to be practically out Of
range ofNie Union guns
I,onretrant eove Taa'c army had t.vnntx
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

ten. ~. ". nova
division in Sum
nel''s right grand
division, and led
one Of the awful
charges hgains t
Mai'ye's hill.
oliver Otis
Howard was born
in Maine in 1880,
and was graduated
at West Point in
1854. He was in
sti.uctor in mathe-
matics at the MILF
N~.xr -.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

days to prepare
for tlsbattle, and
they made good
use of the time.
|Marye's hill was
the best roifF Of
lookout, and to
the .Confederates
stationed there
|Yas assigned the
Asli Of watching
Ia opposite shore,
aud announcing to
Lees army when
1.-THE first crossing
|Ghnuld In of.tnp,,,f
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

A3AAtA- ~ "
Man, a graduate OF
West Point, and q
ia fighting
m a n. He was
Meade's chief OF
s t aft when that
| general command.
ed the Potomac
army.
| Thus French,
Hancock, Howard,
Sturgis, Griffin
and Humphreys
charged successive
| ly upon Marye's
Heights, and sue
cessively their men
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

was IL the Mexican
war and was cap
tured at Buena
Vista, but was ex-
changed. He won
the rank of captain
fighting Indians on
the frontier. AT the
beginning of the
war of 81 he was
In command Of Fort
Smith, Ark. Here
every one Of his
subordinate officers
abandoned him and
entered tho Confefl-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

Longstreet perceived at once the advantage
of this position. Behind the high wall he
stationed some :, 500 soldiers, under command
of Gems. Kershaw and I. r. r. Cobb. Thus,
like Antietam, Fredericksburg, too, had its
sunken road.
Up toward the fatal stone wall and the
sunken road came the columns Of the Union
army. They massed upon the narrow plain at
the foot of Alarye's hill Above them, the
moment they came within range, the Confed-
crate artillery upon the heights poured bot
fire into them. 1t cut great holes in their
arks-gaps which could be seen q mile,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17
THE TERRIBLE STONE WALL.

In every great battle there is some point
ABOUT which the slaughter is thickest. At
Fredericksburg it was the stone wall upon
the outer edge of Telegraph road. Behind
this wall the road was practically sunken
one Ii gas quite invisible to the advancing
Federals
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-12-17

entered Jne COnIeu- JIM o = iN"At''
crate service Sturgis remained in the Union
service, and took an active part in the war
from the first. Beginning with Lyons in
Missouri, he at length came east and had
charge of the Notifications at Washington,
then commanded division in the Potomac
army. He was afterward chief of cavalry in
the department of Ohio. His rank at Fred
ericksburg was that Of brigadier general of
volunteers. Sturgis' division furnished its
quota Of dead men to the fatal stone wall,
1,02S out of two brigades, and fell back.
Griffln's division of the Fifth corps fol-
lowed Sturgis advancing CALAMITY. 1t lost
91S men and retreated behind knoll Sixth
and last, Humphreys division of Hooker's
corps was ordered to the assault. Hooker,
seeing the uselessness of this slaughter, begged
Burnside to countermandS the order, but
Burnside replied: "The crest must be car
l'ied tonight" and ordered Hooker across
with two divisions, Humphreys and Sykes
Humphreys is said to have been the ablest
officer on the field of Fredericksburg. By
the time he advanced on Marye's hill the
ammunition of the Confederate artillery
upon the heights was exhausted, and thus
one CALLING fire to which his predecessors
nau Deen exposed was stopped Ills men
gained point some yards in advance of
those who had gone before.
Perceiving the uselessness of firing at the
wall, Humphreys ordered his men to charge
bayonets They prepared to do SO, though it
was hopeless, when the same sheet of flame
flashed into their faces, and spite of all efforts
to rally them they turned backward. Nearly
half of their 1000 fell in fifteen minutes.
Then night closed.
Andrew A. Humphreys was q Pennsylva-
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MARyE,s Hill

Summers right grand division was to do the
hghtihg on Franklin's right Summers task
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! Big. !Inrr;N M;an.

!! Wds 3. NGJi.'s,aa l,.,; SIMMER that a
Chicago Uu2,as. hrau4e acquainted with n
distinguished professor from tho ,a.t He
W., e man ui grave and diEntied demcauor,
all inspired tSo somcWha; Eippaat Chicago
"u.c.n v.;:A no N;;lo NV. With thc FRO
t~>o. was lis young wife, particularly
Guie, lyun2 woman, WHO s-.dom sr-okc. The
ChilJgp yuJnnu. he,AS left alone with them,
undertook 81 furnish the chat. II va, sitting
ont Lyrr GA tAr pI%zi last night" said she.
after every Oh, ol.o lad l,fr, and | chanc7d
20 ulcrho1r - crap Of conversation from one
Of tho windows [ don't supp,lo pyious
gentleman iilo yourself professor, viii IL AZ
al Interested, and ! ,c!l il tor the amusement
oi your wife. TIE voice. floating ont were
tlr4. of p man had 81 ,;...j. ;.al heard the
man SAY: poor 'i'tlc birdie, is 90 afraid Ia
b" al alone IN do world Nil rr,St. big.
ho7;iL man. Tho l;t,c woman from chi
ca. g., n1 further, for the professor and hi.
vito hod turns, vivid earle; rho Ar
ConaUc
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A WET JUNE DAY.

Scents, sounds "a, VI November I'll the mir;
. Or myriad b. SONS down wet pathways
stn)wn,
or RACED leaves Oh stcan,ing branches blown,
3D. And dropped Into dank bollows hero and there.
Keen l.;'lo gusts 80 whrling through the hush,
Dry ~, { 4o rnis;S before them up tho lane,
And ~, the lovely world grown ours again.
The az, hard fences, the ono elder bush,
Promo VIA its white face in the thick drcnched
Grt-6;
The rovJ Of apple trcca gnarlcd, dripping,
sweet;
The hi hvay with its pools agleam like glass.
The, j,8 s:l speeds the mist on shining feet,
Meadows and wood, peaked roof-btyoad them
SHOW
a windy west .h3 color of n rose.
--Laette Woodwork Reece.
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Kansas trYinG "a encourage sill rroduo-
zion and has, by ACT ot legislature, ctah
l.Sncd a STATEN whore eggs VII h. d'a:7!-
butnd and rollers uIuc,t"i Ton arrt.s have
bnca set out with mulh-rrv ,rcrs G"i Nftepr
rocls arc NON runn!nr producing Il is said.
C.oy!icrl ILL., Now York .Ilu.
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ahy should II Rrt do caro- for his money =

D.. nor cure, .uc way OF INC OlHcT, WOuiuH
natter 1nucD ID Stephen Iangdon. And
t0iuk jud .>i r.ti,.r.'
Tho mau l.; li5l 90 best ho could.
jy a mi hty Effort ho restrained his deeper
'.lir-i =, and kept tbun mostly cut of sight
and tlc pythpacs went away, believing III
CT heart tina. Stephen Ianrdon had no love
Tor Laura Dempsey.
Al hour lt.- Dadmdn Carter found his
frn.d racla: ,yaud fro, Tearing mills bosom
tho sAarpcst, lccnosl agony of all his lifc
- first b. r-t~. q to speak, but ut length
tho true fricrd a'ccocdcd in drawing from
A;n tho whole story.
"Dadnun, tAcrD is no truth in woman. |
vas q fool - think she ever loved me for my
yclf. Had been pocr and lonely sho would
havo passed mo 10y With utter contempt. But.
ahi l did lovo her deeply, truly
For q fun minute Carter witnessed his
friends great agony in contemplotive, pity
ing silence.
At length no spoEc.
"Stcphcn l4angdon, had not thought you
50 veal, and unjust I had thought you n
nan tIuo and oarncst il your friendship, not
4 man 10 desert his llty ut tho first cry of
no wolf"
"Dadmun CGrtcrl arc you nad:7
81 inad! Stephen, YOU are the mailman.
Loo! at it, As between tn angel and sor-
pent, you side with tho serpent. As between
an angel and q serpent! AS between Laura
Dempsey and Matilll stark, you jump to
lauh in Starr. Oh, Stephen
But, man alive, did you not understand
what told you?-what she, Matilda Stark,
told luGN
"Wcl, there you have cause in trial be
tween st.'l, and DcmpScr. Have you seen
tho defendant! Oh, man, man, have You
iiycd oil tbyso years with the need, at This
late hour, OF herring FROM me that the case
cover IVES between man and man that had
MOI two sides u iu Bat beyond that, IN thi'
caso, who is The complainant tlr-.. what
Is Der charac,.r. Do need to tell NuH.'
IIAgdcn shoo. h. bead llon}1!, hit ia-
dicativo OF rvg-.ion.
Next" went ON Carscr, "what Interest, if
blind? Doa't you Enow that M".ilda %tar.
sought your enLics, your .,ricty. you- hand,
80 open and SO unbir.hioCi'', and 10 persist
emily, that everybody smiled i; dlS,a!H And
co You know that shc has sinca laLoreL to
bring about union lc-wccu yourself and he"
yJunscst sister"
Stephen locked w ike q nan tlrins 10 iin6
the light.
Como, Stephen Icn-Gon, have YOU the
courage to follow this ding up
what! 20 to I4!u-J' Go to he. with .uch
Tn AFRAID VEo Use fool; b.; ~" dpo.
know how il hurt me.
Il % not doubt it; Ut don fancy III"
hurt viii long renal" So give ypa PIN. II
there were ncol of going - l.AGrs. ! Mould
hope you would NV tHa courage AID mani
-aS.--to say notAing of .}1.l laltr 20 t.
her, but, thank foT.u-., there 0aS q third
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Cor ,lrvel.r.. ,s.,.in.n.Al. snI a TrcstAe o.
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THE SERPENTS STING,

montahlo KIND. Dear old follow, hero you
arc full n;o aAd thirty
mot quite"
"Wou, you lack not moro than thrce
months arl Two days. But seriOusi! Stove,
am moro anxious than you think want
you 10 have q homo and u be settled down in
At; an, moreover, want you to scclro the
rrictl - women whose love you havo won.
Wha, = ,lal YOU might be with an oiu in
life above yourself"
so b;So..N Dadmun Carter to his friend
Stephen L4nEd0n.
DliInua b.! been married almost fifteen
years and had a happy family bcnc.'A lis
roof tree, whil2 Stephen had wandered alone,
though not without such friends rs tie lroc
heartcl, car ,<3 possessor Of wealth must
ever fad.
Sevur-.l roasons had thus far held Stephen
aloof from rn..t:imony. First, be was ~ m
turo Clrlt.a- and Cowardly in fc;nal ,.icty;
seconl t.c class oc women with whom 40 had
been ,,,! :r.cY2 to he thrown in contact had
not b-o- a Character to command E45 re
spect; GO, tAlrI, he knew that many fair
and scao.a:a,; G4.ls3ls had aimed TO capture
Tim Only TINT they might enjoy Lis wealth,
for, be it known, ne was wealthy. Thol.; n
DO had for ycars lived at IT, top OF his bent,
he had not stont his income.
Thu ~. No. &c principal lay intact, just as his
father LII ic:t it.
But d ~ Iii Stephen LaDE.ion had found
wor-ss ,7aon be not only loved, but Who
he be-, !, loved Lin in return.
Lau-a Dempsey v-Gs her nane; an orphan,
% yea. o' a5e, haalthful, chocrfu,, happy
beautjt!. ....4 good.
Sim lsa death of her father, who bod
been ca, ot : .aohols wGrnle5t friends, Aho had
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"Huahl know all yoa would say. Bless
her doar heart She is an angel and would
bring very d-12oa TO the foot OF the cross,
believe; bat ! don'l want her to try. [
NV ' 10 ~ .'.y ;r tl'i ,vs oi 'F.'," hnow
c,,,rn tN,+ t.o,n h..
without committing myself. Ny only VIC"
der is--and t:.at .liIitats something ngain5t
tier caro- and Jllgmont-how shn caLne - SCI
her hort uloa d man 50 much her senior
and, eboYa all clio, q man Whose lifo h4
boon 81 ia:.tiy and loosely spent as la.
mine"
"Stepban, you 10 not pretend that yog ar
ignorant IN tast direction. An don't play
the hyIocritc"
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